69novels Chapter 607
Chapter 607
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: 0.034s Scan: 0.027sAfter the warship open event in Kiel Port ended, reporters from various countries wrote down the intelligence they obtained on the spot, published it, and distributed it in their respective countries.
So, for a while, people from all over the world knew: The British lied, they suffered a disastrous defeat after the Battle of the North Sea, the Hood was sunk, three of the other four battleships were sunk, and one was captured, and the German army won an unprecedented victory!
Once this news was announced, the British couldn’t sit still!
This is simply a naked slap in the face!
“The Hans are so despicable, they are deliberately making us look bad in public!”
When the news reached the British Empire, the British people were furious!
They all ran to the government’s parliament building to protest and demanded an explanation from the government.
The reaction of the families of soldiers serving in the navy was even more intense, because the government’s concealment resulted in them not knowing whether their family members had died in the war or been captured!
At that time, there were no mobile phones or instant messaging software, so they could not contact their families at all.
As a result, tens of thousands of soldiers’ families blocked outside the government office building, demanding that the government give them an explanation so that they could be reunited with their families as soon as possible!
This request made the British Empire very angry. The government was extremely passive!
In just one week, the British had been humiliated several times!
Because they didn’t know that the Royal Oak battleship was captured, they announced to the outside world that they had won the naval battle.
In their view, as long as they refused to admit it, even if Hans exaggerated his military exploits, as long as they could not produce solid evidence, the British could continue to deny it, thus minimizing the negative impact of this matter!
However, the British never expected that among their five battleships, there was actually one battleship that was not sunk, but was captured!
“The captain of the Royal Oak battleship and the commanders on board should all be sent to a military court. Since they were determined to be captured, why didn’t they send a telegram to the mainland to inform the matter before being captured? As a result, what we said was contradictory and we lost our composure, giving the Hans a chance to strike back!”
Many people in the government were very angry about the behavior of the Royal Oak. In their opinion, if the Royal Oak had sent a telegram to inform the situation before being captured, the British would definitely not use the previous excuse!
If they didn’t use such an excuse to carry out false propaganda, they wouldn’t have lost so much face in front of the whole world this time!
So when they thought of this, everyone became more dissatisfied with the navy!
Just like the officials from various countries who visited Kiel Harbor before, the Japanese couldn’t figure out how this battle turned out.
Why were the Hans able to take their entire fleet intact and without paying any price ? The team was written off?
What was going on?
How did the Hans do it?
I couldn’t figure it out, I couldn’t figure it out at all!
Of course, they couldn’t admit that the reason for this result was that Hans’ navy was too strong. After all, Hans’ navy had only been rising for less than ten years and was a very young navy, while the British Royal Navy had already grown up and had been at its peak for a long time. They couldn’t accept the reality of losing to such a fledgling young navy!
Since they refused to admit that Hans’ navy was too strong, they could only look for the reason in themselves.
As a result, almost all the dissatisfaction of the entire British Empire was focused on the Royal Navy!
“Humph, it’s all because the navy was careless and arrogant and underestimated the enemy. Otherwise, how could we have been defeated so miserably?”
“That is, there are so many main battleships available, why only five battleships are deployed for combat?”
“The two aircraft carriers, Hermes and Titan, did not play any role in this battle. Instead, they became a burden to the entire fleet, causing the fleet to be annihilated in order to protect them. I suggest that in the future, we should not waste resources to build useless aircraft carriers. Wouldn’t it be better to concentrate all resources to build battleships that are more powerful than Hans’ Bismarck class?”
“This alone is not enough. Our warships are too slow. The speed of German warships is generally above 33 knots, and except for the Hood which is slightly faster, the speed of other warships is very slow. With such a slow speed, once we fall into a disadvantage, we will be in an embarrassing situation where we can neither fight nor escape. So I suggest that the speed of our next generation of warships must be fast, at least faster than the 33 knots of the Hans!”
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In response to the failure of this naval battle, the criticism of the navy within the British government was like a tide, making the Minister of the Navy feel like he was almost drowned by saliva!
They lost this naval battle in a confused manner, and they still haven’t figured out how they lost!
If you say they were careless, it’s understandable, because they did underestimate their opponents at the beginning, so they didn’t go all out to fight Hans to the death, but were extremely confident and only sent five main battleships to meet the enemy. They thought this naval battle would be the same as the past few hundred years. They easily dealt with the enemy with the momentum of plowing the courtyard and sweeping the holes! Unexpectedly
, after hunting geese all day, they were finally blinded by geese!
Not only did they fail to win, but they also buried an entire fleet!
Moreover, apart from the telegrams sent back by the Hood when it was dueling with the Bismarck, when the other warships in the fleet were sunk, they hardly sent any signals, as if they were sunk one after another in a very short period of time and had no time to send telegrams!
Because these warships were defeated so quickly that the Sun Never Sets itself did not know what the outcome of these warships was!
Were they sunk, captured, or escaped by luck?
At this time, five days had passed since the Battle of the North Sea. If their warships had escaped by luck, they should have returned to their homeland by now.
But unfortunately, no warship has returned so far, which means that their fleet has been completely wiped out!
Since they have been completely wiped out, the Sun Never Sets people naturally thought that all these warships were sunk, which resulted in such a farce, making them lose face in front of the whole world!